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... considerable part is husk , which adheres so closely , that it is needful to bruise the whole together , and sift out the meal , to separate it . Yet there is " bread enough , and to spare , " as far as quan- tity is concerned ...
... considerable part is husk , which adheres so closely , that it is needful to bruise the whole together , and sift out the meal , to separate it . Yet there is " bread enough , and to spare , " as far as quan- tity is concerned ...
Page 52
... considerable skill is required from and practised by the husbandman , in performing this part of his duty . His walk , his throw , his grasp , must each be accurately timed and measured , or his ground and seed would be greatly wasted ...
... considerable skill is required from and practised by the husbandman , in performing this part of his duty . His walk , his throw , his grasp , must each be accurately timed and measured , or his ground and seed would be greatly wasted ...
Page 54
... considerable quick- ness as he walks . Children usually follow , and drop the seed into the holes which he makes . The drill is too complex a machine to be accurately described , or understood here . It is a sort of box , containing the ...
... considerable quick- ness as he walks . Children usually follow , and drop the seed into the holes which he makes . The drill is too complex a machine to be accurately described , or understood here . It is a sort of box , containing the ...
Page 54
... considerably beyond the ear . The principal use of barley is for making beer ; for which purpose , it first undergoes a process , called malting . It is also ground for bread in many countries ; and in our own to make food for hogs . It ...
... considerably beyond the ear . The principal use of barley is for making beer ; for which purpose , it first undergoes a process , called malting . It is also ground for bread in many countries ; and in our own to make food for hogs . It ...
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... considerable ex- tent , and to a very large size . The original stock , from which the cultivated cabbage is derived , and from which also we obtain cole- wort , borecole , cauliflowers , and brocoli , grows on cliffs by the sea - side ...
... considerable ex- tent , and to a very large size . The original stock , from which the cultivated cabbage is derived , and from which also we obtain cole- wort , borecole , cauliflowers , and brocoli , grows on cliffs by the sea - side ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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